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šŸ”® Big tech multilateralism; corona vs carbon; VCs, scientists and a less wobbly Earth++ #265

Azeem Azhar
Apr 12, 2020
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I’mĀ Azeem Azhar. I conveneĀ Exponential ViewĀ to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

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🤳 Google and Apple have teamed up to offer a set of tools, APIs, to allow health authorities and others to build contact tracing apps. This is a big deal: between them, Apple and Google’s Android have a smidgen over 99% market share of smartphones. The APIs should have ā€œprivacy central to the designā€ and it appears that they have taken steps to do that. (Google’s won’t be using location data from this app to shill to advert…

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